Methodological approaches to environmental assessment of rural settlements for justification of the sustainable development strategy

The article studies methodological approaches to the environmental assessment of quality environment and population rural settlements. components “rural environment” life activity include factors support residents or are resource potential that determine viability vitality environment. polystructurality living forms a special functional regime within boundaries settlements agricultural activities. At present stage, is experiencing following negative factors: an increase in morbidity, genetic disorders, mortality, complication social relations, economic decline. resident closely interrelated with natural environment, activities has wide spatial boundaries, including various spectra: home, household, objects activity. result processing compilation morphometric maps. map basis for creating predictive models course exogenous processes. A monitoring algorithm, which collects data according scheme typical random nest selection, important analysis residents. sample range, guarantees survey features settlements, calculated rules sampling method 145 villages. Rural Voronezh region more than 500 people were studied terms medical demographic indicators.